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Item Ships From: Europe
Original East Anglian oil painting Post Impressionist English Landscape c.1975
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Anthony Atkinson (1920-2015) English
TITLE: "Pastoral Landscape"
SIGNED: lower Right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 57cm x 47cm
CONDITION: excellent
DETAIL: Painter, teacher an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures Walking On The Southern French Beach Post Impressionist Signed Oil
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Beach Walk
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed on front and back
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 9.5 x 13.75 inches
Colors: Beige colors, grey, blue, green, brown a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School 18th century, Portrait of a gentleman, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century
Portrait of a gentleman holding his hat
Oil on paper transferred on wood panel
34 x 27 cm
Not signed which is normal for this type of artwork
In a beautifu...
Category
1760s Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Simple Dance. Contemporary Abstract Painting by Trevor BELL.
By Trevor Bell
Located in Brecon, Powys
A Simple Dance
Acrylic on hand-shaped surface with red bevelled edge
Signed, inscribed and dated 2008-9 to verso
Diameter 118cm
This is in very good condition and the artist has ...
Category
2010s Abstract Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Figure resting with Wild Clematis landscape, in Monte Solaro, Capri, 1889
Located in Woodbury, CT
Martin Gwilt Jolley (1859–1916)
Wild Clematis, Monte Solaro, Capri, circa 1886–1889
Oil on canvas, signed lower right; titled, signed and dated 1886 verso
In an ornate period giltwoo...
Category
1880s Victorian Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
LONG LOVE
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Shipped from Thailand because i am living here in 2025
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
$94 Sale Price
20% Off
Pierre Montezin large French Impressionist painting harvesting scene and poplars
By PIERRE EUGÈNE MONTEZIN, 1874 - 1946
Located in Harkstead, GB
Montezin's dazzling display of brushwork captures the effects of the sunlight on the water and the glittering leaves of the poplar trees. A masterwork by the artist presented in the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental Pair of Stained Glass Windows by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Monumental Pair of Stained Glass Windows
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (J.B. Capronnier)
Belgium, dated *fecit 1886*
A rare and highly important pair of monumental stained glass windows ...
Category
19th Century Gothic Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass
French Impressionist, Figures on the beach, South of France, French Riviera
By Henri-André Martin
Located in Harkstead, GB
One of several paintings that we are offering by Henri-André Martin's. A wonderfully evocative image of an expansive beach with figures relaxing on a beach in the South of France, pa...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Neighbourhood Cat- 21st Century Contemporary Animal Portrait painting
By Adriana van Zoest
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest
Neighbourhoodcat
13 x 20 cm
Framed in a black wooden frame: 22 x 30 cm
Oil paint on wood panel
Dutch artist, painter, Adriana van Zoest, lives and works in Warmen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of Young Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait realized by Franco Settimj in 1932.
Oil on cardboard.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Good condition except for some minor issing parts on edges.
Category
1930s Modern Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Mousquetaire Musketeer Cavalier Spanish Tradition Diego Velázquez Influence
By Ferdinand Victor Leon Roybet
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Ferdinand Victor Leon Roybet.
French ( b.1840 – d.1920 ).
Le Mousquetaire.
Oil On Panel.
Signed Upper Right.
Image size 31.1 inches x 24.4...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Mid Century Impressionist landscape, Le Trayas, Côte d’Azur France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Lucien Potronat (1905–1981)
“Le Trayas, Côte d’Azur”, circa 1950
Oil on canvas Signed lower right Original French frame
This radiant oil painting by French artist Lucien Potronat ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Modern Knight Pop Art Precursor The Jostling Match Abstracted Colorful Joy
Located in Norwich, GB
Artists tend to peak quite young, and I often love their early work. It tends to have an infectious enthusiasm, great vigour, originality, imagination and a sense of fun. René Marie...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Abstract Figures Original French Artwork Acrylic Painting
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original French Artwork
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original acrylic painting on thick artist paper stuck on card, unframed
size: 9.5 x 10.5 inches
condition: very good
prove...
Category
20th Century Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique Spanish Old Master Oil on Wood Panel, Head Portrait of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 18/19th Century Spanish School
Title :Head study of Christ
Medium: oil painting on wood panel, period gilt framed
panel : 6 x 5 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,403 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-16th-Century Romagnola School The Adoration Of The Magi, Nativity
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This exquisite early 16th-century Italian panel captures one of Christianity’s most cherished moments - the Adoration of the Magi. Painted around 1530, this panel belongs to a moment...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude Woman - Oil Paint attr. Edgar Stoebel - Mid-20th Century
By Edgar Stoëbel
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman is an artwork attribuited to Edgar Stoebel (1909-2001).
81 x 45 cm; no frame.
Oil painting on canvas.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Tranquil Harbor Scene with Boats and Coastal Village
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tranquil harbor scene
signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 7.5 x 10 inches
Oil painting on cardboard, unframed
Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$421 Sale Price
35% Off
Fine 18th Century English Portrait of Aristocratic Gentleman Huge Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Aristocratic English Gentleman
circle of Thomas Hudson (British (1701-1779)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 53.5 x 45 inches
painting: 45 x 40 inches
provenance: private...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,277 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine 1700
s Italian Old Master Ink
Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Providenza
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Providenza'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inche...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Ornamental Cheetah III
Eternal Wonder III, Set of 2, Original painting
By Adam Bartlett
Located in Deddington, GB
The piece is part of a series loosely based on figurines I have come across in vintage shops, the figures often being moulded in one with the base, I thought it would be fun to do on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Superb Original 1960
s French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures in Blue
French, circa 1950-1960 period
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 29 x 21.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very good condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
11/02/2023, 18.46h by Calo Carratalá - Large waterscape painting, Senegal, birds
By Calo Carratalá
Located in Paris, FR
02/11/2023, 6:46 pm is a unique oil on canvas diptych painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, composed of two panels of equal size.
Total dimensions: 230 × 496 cm (90...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of WW11 British Army Officer Soldier Antique English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Army Officer *see notes below
by Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird (British 1879 - 1962)
oil painting on canvas , unframed
canvas: 24 x 18 inches
condition: very good, minor surface scu...
Category
1930s English School Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Portrait Painter - 21st Century Contemporary Imaginary City Landscapes
By Michiel Schrijver
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Michiel Schrijver
'The Portrait Painter'
40 x 50 cm (framed: 44 x 54 cm
(Wooden frame is included in price)
acryl on canvas
Dutch Painter Michiel Schrijver lives and works in the ce...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pair of Large 18
century Paintings The Wedding Feast of Bacchus and Ariadne
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of large painting oil on canvas with the Wedding Feast of Bacchus and Ariadne scene .
Italy 18' century .
Amazing landscape background and roman Temple with classical archite...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golden Sunrise on the Maas – Arthur J. Meadows’ Tranquil Masterpiece (1884)
By Arthur Joseph Meadows
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Golden Dawn on the Maas
In this refined marine painting, Arthur Joseph Meadows captures a tranquil sunrise on the river Maas just below the historic city of Dordrecht (“Dort”). The...
Category
1880s Romantic Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait - Oil on Canvas by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes a wooden frame 37.5x27 cm.
Very good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Secret Peek - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
By Bartosz Kolata
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Extreme yoga, Large Geometric Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By Antony Squizzato
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Extreme Yoga by Antony Squizzato is a captivating abstract painting featuring flowing geometric shapes in a harmonious color palette of yellow, blue, and gray. This contemporary artw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
VERY LARGE 1960
S ITALIAN SIGNED OIL - IMPRESSIONIST VENICE TRANQUIL CANAL SCENE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Italian School, mid 20th century, indistinctly signed.
Title: The Tranquil Canal, Venice. Beautiful green/ teal moody tones to the colour palette.
Medium: oil pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Victorian Scottish Highlands Loch Landscape Figures Admiring View 19th Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Scottish Highlands
British School, first half 19th century
Circle of Copley Fielding (1787-1855)
oil on canvas framed
framed: 15.5 x 17.5 inches
canvas : 10 x 12 inches
Provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Victorian Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal Seascape Landscape Painting with Boats by 20th Century French Artist
By Pierre de Clausade
Located in Preston, GB
Coastal Seascape Landscape Painting with Boats by 20th Century French Artist, Pierre de Clausade (1910-1976).
Oil on canvas, Signed on the lower ...
Category
20th Century Realist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Very Large British Oil depicting famous Naval battle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, second half 20th century, signed lower left 'Champion'
Title: a copy after de Loutherbourg's 1795 painting of Lord Howe's action of 1 June 1794 in th...
Category
20th Century Victorian Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,638 Sale Price
20% Off
Judas Medal- 21st Century Still-life painting of a tin with dry Judas Medal
By Erik Zwaga
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This still-life is made by Dutch painter Erik Zwaga.
The painter started in the style of the romantic school, Erik Zwaga began to search more and more for his own visual language...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Apple tree in bloom. Kolomenskoye Oil Painting Impressionist by Simon Kozhin
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
Catalogue raisonné reference:
Publisher: Tvorchestvo (2015) Language: English Russian ISBN-10: 5000280512 ISBN-13: 978-5000280515.
Shipping from the gallery in Switzerland with a ce...
Category
2010s Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Fine 18th Century Italianate Landscape Garden Classical Ornaments and Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Italianate landscape garden with classical ornament, including Giambologna's Sabine women and a classical urn, view to a bay beyond
Coplestone War...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vistula X - Modern Contemporary Atmospheric Landscape
By Grzegorz Wójcik
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art:
When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
9/02/2023, 17.10h by Calo Carratalá - Large waterscape painting, Senegal
By Calo Carratalá
Located in Paris, FR
9/02/2023, 17.10h is a unique oil on canvas diptych painting by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, composed of two panels of equal size.
Total dimensions: 230 × 496 cm (90....
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th Century Oil - A Threatening Presence
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming early 19th-century genre scene depicting figures having an altercation in a tavern interior. Unsigned. Presented in a wooden frame with a gilt-painted inner window. On can...
Category
Early 19th Century Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tender
Located in Zofingen, AG
Shades of light and color combinations convey the gentle image of a young dancer.
She is light and weightless, it seems that she will jump and fly like a bird
Category
2010s Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life with Salami, Bread, Biscuits and Glass Bottles-Oil Paint-17th century
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding still life Salami, Bread, Biscuits Glass and Glass Bottles, realized with the technique of Oil on Canvas and surrounded by a modern wooden frame.
With its soft tones and...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Red Roof Boathouse on a Turquoise Sailing Boat Bay
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Boathouse Landscape
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 9 x 10.5 inches
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of aging.
Prov...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$554 Sale Price
35% Off
Mannerist Italian painter - 16th/17th figure painting - Madonna praying
Located in Varmo, IT
Umbrian-Roman Master (16th-17th century) - Madonna in Prayer.
84 x 58.5 cm unframed, 96 x 70.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame (not signed).
Condi...
Category
16th Century Mannerist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,131 Sale Price
35% Off
Pencil Sketches Of Two Forlorn Female Faces Lady Original French Artwork
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original French Artwork
by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014)
original pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
size: 11 x 17 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from the artists e...
Category
20th Century Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Escuela colonial (XVIII) - Óleo en tela - San Juanito y el cordero
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra se presenta enmarcada con su marco original de la época (el marco presenta faltas y desgastes)
El estado de la obra se puede ver, tiene algunas faltas de pintura y faltas en...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still Life with Apples and Female Torso
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still Life with Apples and Female Torso
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Medium: Acrylic ad pastel on unframed paper
Size: 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pastel
Fine Antique Scottish Oil Painting Mother
Child Walking Romantic Highland View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Walk
Scottish artist, late 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 24.5 x 20.5 inches
canvas: 18 x 14 inches
provenance: private colle...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,256 Sale Price
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La Baigneuse - Academic Nude Figure in Landscape Oil by Paul Emile Chabas
By Paul Emile Chabas
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas nude figure in landscape circa 1910 by French academic painter Paul Emile Chabas. The piece depicts a nude woman bathing under a tree in a lake. The sky above th...
Category
1910s Academic Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge Antique British Signed Oil Extensive River Landscape Hilly Views, framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Winding River Valley
by George Mulready Freezor (British, 1865-1962)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 32 x 38 inches
canvas: 29 x 33 in...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Picnic
Located in Zofingen, AG
shipped in roll
Spring Picnic is a contemporary painting portraying a quiet moment of closeness between two women resting together in a spring garden. Rendered in soft pastel tones, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
1950s French Post Impressionist Nude Lady Artists Model Painting
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$737 Sale Price
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Naturalistic British painter - 19th century landscape painting - Mountains view
Located in Varmo, IT
European Painter (dated 1925) - Mountain landscape.
62 x 41 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work signed indistinctly lower left.
- Autograph inscriptions and dat...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$829 Sale Price
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An Apostle Painted in the Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
Peter Paul Rubens (circle of)
An Apostle
circular 15.15 inches (38.5 cm)
oil on canvas
Provenance: Bukowskis Auctions, lot 725149, as "Peter Paul Rubens, circle of".
Category
17th Century Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 17th-Century Spanish Colonial School, Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception
Located in Cheltenham, GB
US buyers pay no import tariffs on this item.
This early 17th-century Spanish colonial oil painting depicts the Virgin Of The Immaculate Conception surrounded by an array of symboli...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Water Garden. Large Contemporary Triptych Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Francesca Owen is one of the foremost Expressionist artists in the UK. Her works are heavily influenced by the sights, sounds and colours of India where she travels extensively and w...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930
s French Oil Painting Introspective Portrait of a Woman in Deep Thought
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman in Thought
French School, early 20th century
indistinctly signed oil on board, glass covering framed
(please note the frame is a modern example)
framed: 13 x 9 in...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Painting Of Two Chic Ladies Dancing
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ladies Dancing
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on card, unframed
paper: 13 x 10 inches
stamped verso
very good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josine Vignon (1922-2022) was a French artist living on the Rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris. She painted with a beautiful style, largely influenced by the Impressionist and Post...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
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